GEOLGH01 Geological & Geotechnical Hazards

• Introduction to Earth processes
• Seismic risk: causes of earthquakes, measuring earthquakes, importance of geological data, earthquake hazards, building vulnerability and performance, anti-seismic design, hazard and risk assessment, zoning monitoring and forecasting, loss modeling, earthquake bonds, risk to critical facilities
• Volcanic risk: hazard types and mechanisms, monitoring and forecasting, mitigation and management, insurance aspects, medical issues
• Landslides: mechanisms and hazard, monitoring and forecasting, engineering aspects, management and mitigation
• Subsidence
• Contaminated land
• Dam safety
• Radioactive waste issues
• Ground water hazards: water-table rise beneath major cities, pollution issues

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Montserrat dome Randa rockslide, Switzerland Pujal Building collapse

GEOLGH02 Meteorological Hazards

• Introduction to atmospheric and hydrological processes
• Methods of observing extreme weather and sources of extreme weather data
• Climate variability and climate oscillations
• Large-scale windstorms: hurricanes, typhoons, winter extra-tropical cyclones
• Floods and other hydrological hazards: river floods, coastal floods, drought, wildfires
• Temperature and temperature extremes: heatwaves, coldwaves, frost and ice storms
• Thunderstorm-related hazards: tornadoes, hail, lightning
• Space weather: solar effects on the Earth environment and their socio-economic impacts
• Windstorm and flood damage in the UK
• Flood and windstorm engineering
• Insurance aspects of flooding and climate change
• Weather derivatives

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Climate change Weather observations Lightning

GEOLGH03 Independent Project

See project page for further information (link)